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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

cheers to cucumber season!

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My first cukes are in. Yippy! I love to make cucumber martinis. Of course, they're nice in salads too. My earliest varieties are blocky white North Carolina pickling cucumbers and Burpee's Sweet Success.

This year I am growing my cucumbers (and melons) on trellises in my cold frame (with covers removed). I have an automatic sprinkler set up to give them 10 minutes of water every evening. They seem to like this.

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13 comments:

  1. Stephanie from GardenTherapy.caJuly 14, 2010 11:33 AM

    I could go for one of those martinis!

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  2. Ellie Mae's CottageJuly 15, 2010 12:22 AM

    Looks delicious! I love cucumber water too. It's refreshing and supposed to be a good diuretic. BTW - I have Firefox and your blog is still loading strangely. I get the white screen and it won't load. The only way I can get it to load is click the back button.

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  3. kathyJuly 15, 2010 7:53 AM

    Thanks. I made more changes. Cleaned up some of my random code and deleted more stuff. Is it loading any better now?

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  4. AnonymousJuly 15, 2010 9:48 AM

    Hi Kathy,

    It is still loading well for me in firefox. I have to click the stop button asap before it goes blank.

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  5. kathyJuly 15, 2010 10:32 AM

    Is that 'loading well'?

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  6. kathyJuly 15, 2010 10:38 AM

    I just posted to Blogger help here about this. Maybe someone will help.

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  7. kathyJuly 15, 2010 10:43 AM

    here is a better thread of a similar problem. I will keep deleting widgets.

    Somebody please tell me its fixed soon!!

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  8. AaronJuly 15, 2010 6:40 PM

    My cucumbers have been growing like crazy this year. We've already harvested at least a dozen from only three plants. My wife just made six jars of pickles today. I can't wait until they are ready to try. :)

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  9. kathyJuly 15, 2010 7:36 PM

    Oh yes - I forgot about pickles. I bought a great little pickle book at the end of the season last year.Quick Pickles by Chris Schleshinger I'll have to check this out.

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  10. UnknownJuly 15, 2010 10:56 PM

    Are you having any trouble w cucumber beetles? I seem to be loaded w them and last year they ruined my whole crop of cucs. What can i do to get rid of them???

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  11. AnonymousJuly 16, 2010 1:07 PM

    Lol. I meant to say "not loading well".

    Today it is loading very well.

    thanks.

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  12. Ellie Mae's CottageJuly 16, 2010 7:32 PM

    Its loading normally now for me too. So looks like you fixed it. :)

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  13. GettyJuly 17, 2010 8:16 AM

    Kathy, I am most intrigued. Can't wait for our own cucumber martinis - and salad too.

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